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Standard VIII
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Spot the emph...
Question

Spot the emphatic pronoun in the sentence.

That man, the manager, is never at his desk; he himself wanders about in the office the whole day.


A

He

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Himself

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His

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D

That

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Solution

The correct option is B

Himself


That man, the manager, is never at his desk; he himself wanders about in the office the whole day.


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